Agnes Callard
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832 appearances
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first heard Jul 2009
last heard Jun 2020
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And you could think of privilege as you just get a bunch of those things.
Now
The turn for me in the question that sort of surprised me is when the social justice activism came in.
Because I think that you're obligated to take whatever talents you have and whatever benefits you've been given and whatever luck you have, you're obligated to take that and make the most of yourself and do something great with your life to whatever extent you can.
I think sometimes that might mean social justice activism, but for a lot of us that would be a misuse of our talents.
Um
You know, f like and I think a lot of what you might call is personal growth, like
career like you shouldn't pick a career except if you think that career is gonna do some good in the world.
Um and make a good use of your talents.
So I think you do have very strong moral obligations to do the very best things with your life that you possibly can, and those are probably stronger if you're more privileged.
But I don't know that th I would focus those obligations necessarily in the area of social justice activism.
If nobody did it, there would be no more people.
Good.
I guess that maybe we interpreted the question slightly differently.
I think my thought was that he was saying that some people were unjustly deprived of these things, but not necessarily that it was unjust for you to have them.
Gil Harmon has a paper saying that nobody should be guilty.
Like nobody is ever more a m a good person is not made better by the capacity to feel guilt.
Um, I don't think that's right though.
I think guilt is a kind of pain you have at your own wrongdoing and it's important for your soul to be sensitive to that.
And kind of the for kind of the same reasons that it's important for your soul to be sensitive to sad things that happen to you or to bad things other people do to you.
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